Up for auction in CD-ROM format is that classic hard-to-find book entitled "73 Dipole and Long-Wire Antennas" by Edward M. Noll (164 pages).  This is a fantastic book that covers all aspect of building your own antenna setup.

From the Preface:

An often-heard comment of the present is: “The days of amateurs building and operating their own equipment are a thing of the past.”  To a great extent this is true, since the advent of sophisticated single-sideband equipment has convinced many hams that construction of their own gear is no longer practical.

The one big exception to this approach to amateur radio is in the field of antennas.  The amateur, at very little expense and without the requirement of an R and D laboratory, can indulge in experimentation and building antennas – sometimes with startling results.

73 Dipole and Long-Wire Antennas is the first of a series of books which can make the hobby of amateur radio more than an operational spectator activity.  Each antenna described in this book was constructed by the author, without assistance, and a minimum of tools and equipment was used.  You can do the same, and use the world as your testing ground.

Many of the antennas described in this book compete with, and sometimes surpass, the performance of commercial beams.  A number of new approaches in the construction of the basic long-wire antenna types are detailed.

There are 73 individual antennas included in an order that begins with simple construction and progresses in a sequential manner to more complex arrangements.  However, if you are interested in only one particular type, you can locate that type immediately, and find that each type is completely described.

73 Dipole and Long-Wire Antennas is an invitation to some inexpensive education and fun.  You will find it very educational and satisfying to put up a cheap antenna that you have calculated, erected, and tuned.  You also gain a fringe benefit – that in talking to amateur friends all over the world, you can describe your antenna setup and really know what you are talking about.

Contents

Preface

Section 1:  Regular and Modified Dipole Antennas

1 - Half-Wavelength Antenna

2 - Dipole Antenna, Line Tuned

3 - Dipole and Balun

4 - Novice-Band Dipoles

5 - Advanced- and Extra Class Band Dipoles

6 - Lamp-Cord Dipoles

7 - Twin-Lead Folded Dipole

8 - Folded Dipole

9 - Inverted Dipole

10 - Novice 15-40 Dipoles

11 - Novice 15-80 Dipoles

12 - Novice 40-80 Dipoles

13 - Novice 15-40-80 Dipoles

14 - 20-40-80 Maypole

15 - 20-40-80 C-W Special Inverted Dipoles

16 - One-Wavelength Antenna

17 - 3/2-Wavelength Antenna

18 - Low-Band Segmented Dipoles, 40-80-160

19 - Middle-Band Segmented Dipoles, 20-40-80

20 - Open-Wire Two-Band Dipole

21 - Extra and Advanced Open-Wire Inverted Dipoles

Section 2:  Inverted-Vee Antennas

22 - Center-Fed Monoband Inverted Long-Wire Vees

23 - Two-Band Inverted Long-Wire Vees - No Tuning

24 - Two-Band Iverted Vee - End-Tuned

25 - Long-Wire Inverted Vee - Sideband 10-15-2

26 - All-Band 6-160 Inverted Vee

27 - 15-40 Novice Inverted Vee

28 - 15-40-80 Novive Inverted Vee

29 - 10-15-20 and 20-40-80 Inverted-Vee Trios

30 - W3FQJ Inverted Vee 6-Through-80 Sidebander

31 - Long-Wire Inverted Vees with Line Tuner

Section 3:  Long-Wire Antennas

32 - Single Long-Wire Resonant Antenna - Center-Fed

33 - Single End-Fed Monoband Long-Wire Resonant Antennas

34 - 10-15-20-40 Long-Wire WAS Special

35 - Single Random Wire with Line Tuner

36 - Resonant Antenna Plus Random-Wire Loading

Section 4:  Vee-Beam Antennas

37 - End-Fed Monoband Inverted-Vee Beam

38 - 10-, 15-, and 20-Meter Inverted-Vee Beam

39 - Four-Band Inverted-Vee Beam with Tuner

40 - Three-Halves-Wavelength Horizontal Vee

41 - 15-40 Three-Halves-Wavelength Vee

42 - 15-40 Conical Three-Halves-Wavelength Vee

43 - 15-40 Conical Vee with Balun

44 - Short Horizontal Vee-Beam Antenna

45 - Duo-Band Horizontal Short Vee Beams

46 - Tilted Short Vee Beams

47 - 10-15-20 Short Vee Beam

48 - 10-15-20-40 One-Hundred Footer

49 - 10-15-20-40 Short Vee Beam

50 - 10-15-20-40-80 Vee Beam and Inverted Dipole

Section 5:  Long Vee-Beam Antennas

51 - Long Horizontal Vee-Beam Antenna

52 - Long Horizontal Vee-Beam Antenna, Two Bander

53 - 10-15-20 Vee Beam with Line Tuner

54 - Multiband Vee-Beam Antenna with Antenna Tuner

55 - Sloping Vee Beam

56 - 10-15-20 Sloping Vee Beam

Section 6:  Rhombic Antennas

57 - 10-15 Rhombic Antenna

58 - 10-15-20 Rhombic with Line Tuner

59 - 10-15-20-40 End-Tuned Rhombic

60 - Two-Wire 10-15-20 Rhombic

61 - Resonant Rhombic with Tuner and Open-Wire Line

62 - Terminated Rhombic

Section 7:  Very Long Long-Wire Antennas

63 - Two-Band Very Long Long-Wire Antennas

64 - End-Tuned Very Long 5 DXCC Long Wire

65 - 5 DXCC Long-Wire Special

66 - All-Band, 6-160 End-Fed Very Long Wire with Tuner

67 - Long-Path Short-Path Long-Wire Antenna

Section 8:  Special Vees and Rhombics

68 - 160-Meter Two-Mast Inverted Vee

69 - 10-160 End-Tuned Two-Mast Inverted Vee

70 - Two-Mast Vee-Beam

71 - Three- and Four-Mast Switchable Vee Beams

72 - Two-Mast Rhombic

73 - Short Squared Rhombic

Appendix I - Antenna Noise Bridge

Appendix II - How to Measure the Velocity Factor of Transmission Line with a Noise Bridge

Appendix III - Cutting Half-Wave Sections of Transmission Line Using the Antenna Noise Bridge

Appendix IV - Measuring the Resonant Frequency and Resistance of an Antenna With the Antenna Noise Bridge

Appendix V - Cutting an Antenna to Resonance Using an SWR Meter

Appendix VI - The Construction and Tuning of a Line Tuner

Appendix VII - Antenna Tuner for Long-Wire Vees and Rhombics

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